Thirty Million Warships
To be fair, the Interstellar Transaction Market isn't stupid either. They know that relying solely on some pictures, images, or even samples is not enough to prove that humanity actually has a Life Planet.
However, if it's research data on Life Planet by humans, that's a different story. As a Level 3 Civilization, this kind of data can't be faked.
Of course, even if all the information is true, there is one thing that might be false: the location coordinates of Life Planet.
Human Civilization is only a Level 3 Civilization and lacks the capacity to keep a Life Planet nearby. The Interstellar Transaction Market, with its extensive experience, is clearly aware of this.
So they then made some further demands, requiring humanity to provide the coordinates of Life Planet before the transaction would be considered complete, after they sent a spaceship there to inspect the goods.
In exchange, they can hand over all the technical data and physical components of the Negative Mass Generator to humanity, but humanity must wait in this star system until they have confirmed the existence of Life Planet before they can leave.
As a precaution, they also requested that humanity send a small detachment of warships to accompany them to the target location for confirmation.
From the perspective of cosmic treasures, humanity actually loses out in such a transaction.
However, after hearing several transaction requirements from the Interstellar Transaction Market, the humans were quite pleased. This was because they saw the true nature of the Interstellar Transaction Market in these requirements.
Just as the Interstellar Transaction Market announced it would send a fleet to investigate and confirm whether the location of the Life Planet was real.
It's quite simple. If this Interstellar Transaction Market really has a Level 5 Civilization backing it up, and is also a member of some kind of the Merchant Alliance, then they should have Hyperdistance Communication equipment to contact their organization. Moreover, they don't need to send their own fleet to confirm it. Instead, they only need to inform their organization, and then other advanced civilizations under the organization can handle it.
Of course, this is just one guess. Another guess is that this Interstellar Transaction Market wants to monopolize this Life Planet in exchange for what they call Contribution Points Contribution Degree.
However, the humans think this is unlikely. If they want to Contribution Degree Contribution Points, they can simply submit the coordinates to the organization. There is no need to do this.
That leaves only one possibility: this Interstellar Transaction Market is a scam set up by some civilization under the guise of Interstellar Transaction Market, swindling and deceiving people in this remote star system.
You have to understand, modern humans are no longer country bumpkins. Although they may not have as much experience as some other civilizations, they have experienced many things.
Take the issue of Life Planet, for example. Humans have seen the fate of the Kun-Tai Civilization's home planet in the Kun-Tai Civilization's database. The Kun-Tai Civilization's home planet was taken away by an advanced civilization.
With this understanding, humanity believes that if there is indeed Level 5 Civilization behind the Interstellar Transaction Market, then they could simply have an advanced civilization pack up and take the planet away, just like they did with the home planet of the Kun-Tai Civilization.
However, understanding the ins and outs of the Interstellar Transaction Market does not mean that humanity should immediately begin operations, because humanity has not yet grasped their military strength.
Of course, now that things have come to this point, it would be a shame not to take advantage of this opportunity that has been presented to us.
Therefore, after consulting with various scholars, humanity agreed to the Interstellar Transaction Market's request and agreed to send a squadron to the left of the Life Planet to confirm its location. However, the Interstellar Transaction Market had to hand over the Negative Mass Generator and all its data to humanity.
In addition, the humans made an outrageous demand, asking the Interstellar Transaction Market to provide them with the three Life Elixir on the list. However, after some haggling, the humans only received the Life Elixir with a five-thousand-year effect that the Interstellar Transaction Market had originally given to the Dog-Headed People.
However, the Interstellar Transaction Market wasn't stupid; they needed to confirm the existence of Life Planet before they would deliver the goods.
Therefore, humanity must remain in this region of stars until news of confirmed Life Planet arrives before leaving.
Whether out of overconfidence or for some other reason, the Interstellar Transaction Market actually agreed to this deal, which was essentially a case of humans getting Negative Mass Generator for nothing.
When the Interstellar Transaction Market first agreed, humanity was somewhat puzzled, thinking the other side seemed a bit naive. It wasn't until both sides agreed on the rendezvous point for their respective fleets and prepared to send them off that humanity realized the Interstellar Transaction Market was truly confident.
Because at this time, they took the initiative to demonstrate their military power to humanity.
The Life Planet information humans provided to the Interstellar Transaction Market was for Wolf Planet, and the technological data was correct, but the coordinates were incorrect. The reason is that Wolf Planet is extremely far away, practically within our Solar System; Level 3 Civilization's spaceship would need countless years to reach it.
It's important to remember that it was the Awakeners brought humanity to this star system in the first place.
The false coordinates provided by humanity are approximately 250 light-years from the Interstellar Transaction Market. It would take Level 3 Civilization about 700 years to arrive there and send back a message, which is perfectly reasonable. The key point is that humanity initially claimed to be a peace-loving civilization native to this star system; they couldn't reveal their location too far, otherwise, exceeding the boundaries of this star system would prematurely expose their deception.
After both sides agreed to deploy their respective fleets and designated a rendezvous point, humanity saw a massive fleet slowly emerge from behind the two Gaseous Planet.
The Interstellar Transaction Market even allows human probes to get closer for a closer look.
This is why humanity is now truly experiencing the military power of this Interstellar Transaction Market. The number of warships emerging from behind the two Gaseous Planet is at least thirty million.
It is more than four times the number of warships in the world's First Fleet.
However, in the data transmitted back by the probes, humans discovered that the fleets engaged in interstellar trade were also enormous, possibly even larger than human Sea-Class Warship.
Whether intentional or not, the fleet from the Interstellar Transaction Market formed a dense spatial array as it sailed out. This made it appear to humans looking from the shaded side as a vast, intricate net, completely obscuring the light of the Yellow Dwarf Star.
This visual effect is like hanging a mesh cloth over a light bulb, with the light from the Yellow Dwarf Star passing between each warship, making it seem as if humans in the distant starry sky can see the diffraction of light.
Under this light, countless warships seemed to be inlaid with a layer of golden radiance, appearing extremely majestic and imposing. In particular, the background of the fleet was a Yellow Dwarf Star, which was truly extremely oppressive.
Thirty million warships!
Human military experts believe that this may not be the full extent of the military power of the Interstellar Transaction Market, but rather just the power they have revealed to intimidate humanity.
Because they still do not allow human probes to go around to the back of those two Gaseous Planet to observe them.
"No wonder they're so confident; they're hiding such a massive force, and this is just what they're willing to show us," a military expert remarked, his tone suggesting they'd really messed up.
Upon hearing this, Yue Yuan felt somewhat heavy-hearted, but things had already come to this point, and there was no turning back.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "It's a resource war waged by Level 3 Civilization, and we still have about seven hundred years. As long as the false news about the Life Planet hasn't come back, we can maintain a relatively peaceful relationship with this Interstellar Transaction Market."
"But Commander Yue, we probably won't be able to wait until then," a military expert said somewhat silently.
Yue Yuan also sighed. Indeed, more than seven hundred years! If they hadn't hibernated, none of them would have lived to that time.
That's just how it is between interstellar civilizations; a single action or move can easily take hundreds of years, and there's nothing that can be done about it.
The starry sky is so vast!